A Dangerous Engagement is the stylish, charming sixth novel in the Edgar-nominated Amory Ames mystery series by Ashley Weaver, set in 1930s New York. There were four or five shots fired in rapid succession followed by a moment of deafening silence. I jumped up from the bed, but Milo had beaten me to it,…
Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were detectors in this charming historical mystery… “Madam? …Mrs. Chester, are you well?” When she pushed the door open, she found the room silent and empty of its occupant and covered in so much blood that she felt she might drown simply…
The Pearl Dagger by L.A. Chandlar is the third book in the Art Deco Mystery series, where the Great Depression loosens its grip on New York City and Mayor La Guardia and his team meet their greatest foe in the fight against organized crime. Lane Sanders—aide to New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia—has a…
The Twice-Hanged Man by Priscilla Royal is the 15th book in the Medieval Mysteries series, where bodies are turning up and the only suspect is the supposed ghost of a man hanged twice. Prioress Eleanor already has plenty on her plate—having just escorted her brother Robert and his pregnant wife, Elizabeth, from their imperiled manor…
Murder at Crossways by Alyssa Maxwell is the seventh installment of the Gilded Newport Mystery series, where Editor-In-Chief Emma Cross teams up with real-life socialite Mamie Fish to investigate two similar murders around the Harvest Festival. Emma Cross’s relaxing day at the beach with her Aunt and Uncle Vanderbilt goes horribly awry when a body…
Buried by Ellison Cooper is the second book in the Agent Sayer Altair series, where the FBI neuroscientist is on the trail of a serial killer who’s turned up the heat on a cold case. An FBI agent’s hike on his day off doesn’t go according to plan when his cadaver dog scents a body.…
From the glittering ballrooms of 17th Century England to the dangerous intrigues of the French court, in her new novel Milady, Laura L. Sullivan brings an unlikely heroine to the page, turning on its head everything we’ve been told about The Three Musketeers and their ultimate rival. “Un pour tous,” I said. “One for all.”…
The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz is an electrifying first novel from “a riveting new voice in American fiction” (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father’s life and death. This house was once a house. Heard the knock of white men…
Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered is the highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the #1 hit podcast My Favorite Murder! Little girls are taught to be polite, to smile pretty and sit up straight, to be nice and accommodating. And then those little girls turn into grown-ass…
The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a debut novel from Sara Collins. A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London. I’m forced to trot to keep up with the turnkeys so…
